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Zimbabwe's human rights watchdog is sounding alarms about online abuse targeting women after stats showed around 9 million women globally have dealt with digital violence since they turned 15. The commission pointed out that female journalists, activists, politicians, and younger women keep...

UK businesses basically froze up before the Budget dropped because everyone was freaking out about potential tax hikes. The Confederation of British Industry found that private sector confidence tanked to negative 27 points, and companies put investment and hiring decisions on ice while waiting...

Argos dropped over 2,000 workers and still managed to rack up losses topping 223 million pounds after revenue slid and shoppers stayed away from their stores. The retailer got hammered by weak demand for general merchandise, and rainy weather killed their summer sales before things picked up...

Zipcar is bailing on the UK after bleeding cash and facing new charges that would hammer its electric vehicle fleet. The car-sharing service stopped taking bookings past the end of the year while they figure out how to shut everything down, and staff are getting hit with formal consultation...

A federal appeals court let three pro-life groups keep talking about abortion pill reversal treatments after blocking New York Attorney General Letitia James from going after them. The Second Circuit said the organizations can tell women about progesterone protocols meant to stop medication...

Netanyahu dropped a pardon request with Israeli President Isaac Herzog to dodge corruption charges hanging over him since way back, and Trump even chimed in, pushing for it during a Knesset session. The prime minister filed a massive 111-page document through his lawyer Amit Hadad, claiming he...

The UN pushed back after Trump said he wants to completely lock down Venezuelan airspace, with Secretary-General spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric telling everyone to chill and follow international aviation rules. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called the American strikes on...

Former immigration judge Tania Nemer sued the Justice Department after getting canned from her probationary gig at Cleveland Immigration Court, claiming they axed her because she's a woman of Lebanese descent who used to be registered as a Democrat. Her complaint says DOJ violated Title VII of...

Human Rights Watch called on International Criminal Court member countries to protect the institution from attacks as they gather at The Hague for their annual meeting. The group pointed out how various governments have been trying to kneecap the court through sanctions and threats, with the US...

Hogan Lovells poached Walid Salib from Eversheds Sutherland, where he ran their Saudi M&A practice for a couple of years after doing similar work at Freshfields. The guy has spent over 14 years in the Middle East helping sovereign wealth funds, private equity shops, and multinational corps close...

ClearBank brought Angela Roberts on board as group general counsel after she wrapped up her stint leading EMEA legal at Allspring Global Investments. Roberts is taking over from Philip House, who held the chief governance and legal officer spot before shifting to a senior advisory gig. The...

King's College London is rolling out a 12-week online AI course for law students and staff at the Dickson Poon School of Law, partnering with Harvey, Legora, Luminance, and Lucio to teach prompt engineering and responsible AI use. Executive Dean Dan Hunter says the tech has become fundamental...

The London Solicitors Litigation Association kicked off two programs to boost diversity and help younger lawyers level up. LSLA president Nikki Edwards from Howard Kennedy announced the Judicial Shadow Scheme and a new mentoring program at their annual dinner. The shadow scheme lets four members...

Ghost Story Games dropped another developer blog about Judas three months after the last one, with Ken Levine and his team confirming the game is still in the works but offering zero info on when it might actually drop. The studio shared fresh concept art of the main character and let lead...

Samsung exec Kang Min-seok tried defending why the Galaxy Z TriFold uses last year's processor instead of the newest flagship chip from Qualcomm. The VP claims the company wanted a polished product and picked the older silicon for that reason, but the math tells a different story. With just...

Apple just hit a massive sales peak with the latest batch of phones, but analysts from IDC say the company is about to kneecap itself by shuffling launch dates around. The firm expects iPhone shipments to drop over four percent when the base model gets pushed from fall into spring, which breaks...

Epic pulled the horror game Horses from its store literally one day before launch after previously approving it multiple times. The company claimed the indie title from Santa Ragione violated policies around inappropriate content and animal abuse, slapping it with an Adults Only rating that...

Bungie dropped the Renegades expansion for Destiny 2, and Steam numbers are sitting at around 66,000 concurrent players. That beats the depressing October lows and the sub-2,000 counts from right before launch, but it still falls short of what Edge of Fate pulled on its first day when 108,000...

Someone dug up a hidden Apple Health icon buried inside the latest ChatGPT app update for iPhones, and the file name suggests OpenAI might be cooking up an integration between the two services. The feature would apparently let ChatGPT tap into your health data to spit out personalized wellness...

PC makers are eating losses right now because they kept laptop prices steady while memory costs exploded. Anonymous supply chain folks told a Korean outlet that vendors have been burning through old inventory to avoid passing the pain to customers, but that stockpile is running dry...